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I was in the parking lot of the grocery store and the woman in the spot next to me was closing the back hatch in her SUV. Suddenly there was a loud noise and the window glass exploded. Some of the glass hit me but it was safety glass and came off in big hunks. The temperature was in the mid 50s. What would cause such a thing? | ||
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If safety glass is torqued laterally it can shatter. Maybe she pulled at the perfect angle? Or there could have been something with a sharp corner sitting in one of her bags high enough to hit the window when it was closed. Side story...The day before my youngest was born we were loading our SUV to be ready to go to the hospital. I went to open the garage door with the back hatch open, just the glass window part, and it caught on the door. Pulled the window up until it shattered. Glass everywhere. I was finding glass in that garage two years later! Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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Hairline crack already in the glass, or she torqued it somehow when she tried to close it. I had my sunroof on my F150 explode like that driving down the tollway last year. Best I could figure out a rock got kicked up by another vehicle and it just came down and hit the right way. Weird thing the cars that were around me were not that close. It's all about clean living. Just do the right thing, and karma will help with the rest. | |||
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| Knows too little about too much  |
Tempered glass can spontaneously shatter. I was riding down a motorway in Britain in an M3 when the sunroof decided it had gone far enough. Sounded like a gun shot. Similar experience in PHX when the passenger side window departed the fix. I definitely thought that was a gun shot, but no bullet holes. One cold night in NE, the rear window on the station wagon just went. Yes, I'm tough on tempered glass! RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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When I was a kid in 50s Texas, it was not uncommon during the summer, for rear windows to shatter. It was commonly believed that interior heat build up would cause the break. Common practice was to lower the driver’s window a half inch or so if parkd in the sun. I guess it was thought it would relieve heat and pressure. I remember that our neighbors 59 chevy rear window shattered despite driver window being slightly open. The owner, an engineer, seemed surprised. I don’t remember this occuring after the late 60s. I figured the manuf’s figured it out and corrected some design flaw. Anyone remember this sort of thing? | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
Tempered glass can do that. There is a lot of residual stress and sometimes the rear window defroster or many other things will push it over the edge. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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Most often due to defects on the peripheral of the glass, and in temp extremes, very cold soak at night and then sun warming the glass or frame at a faster rate on different areas can cause the glass to shatter spontaneously or from a shock. If you use double polarization film you can see the patterns in the tempered glass. Typically checkerboard or diamond shapes. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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I lost the sunroof on a 2013 Honda Accord on a deserted road on a 50 degree day. Honda replaced it under warranty as the car was 6 month old. The service manager said he'd never heard of a sunroof blowing out. I suggested he google it as there are lots of cases. Too much stress in the glass during manufacturing or installation. I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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My parents had a '51 Buick into the late 50's. My mother and I were in it driving near our house when the center section of the three piece back window just went "pop". -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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Was it a Ford? They have had some issues. Including ones that just go kaboom with no one around. https://www.expeditionforum.co...window-breaks.37576/ ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | |||
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The rear window of my minivan imploded like that on a bitter cold day. I speculate that the defroster may have contributed some stress to a pre-existing crack. It made me really jump, so it's good I was on a city street when it happened rather than the hilly winding highway I'd just left. === I would like to apologize to anyone I have *not* offended. Please be patient. I will get to you shortly. | |||
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A tempered window in the office next to mine exploded a couple of months ago. This is a thirty year old building. The glass man said it happens sometimes. Stresses, cracks, who knows? It rained glass down the side of the building. We are ten stories up. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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We had a '79 Olds wagon that the back window shattered just sitting in the driveway one day. On a semi related note.. also had a drinking glass explode out of the blue in the kitchen cabinet once. _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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Or, ZSMICHAEL, maybe someone just doesn't like you, and was shooting a BB or pellet with you as the target. But they're not the best at aiming..... Just saying........  _______________________________________ Flammable, Inflammable, or Nonflammable....... Hell, either it Flams or it doesn't!! (George Carlin) | |||
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Yup, it was pretty common around here as well. Bob I am no expert, but think I am sometimes. | |||
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Back in 77 on a sub zero day, my boss and I were scraping ice off the rear window of a Ford when the entire rear glass blew about 20 feet across the parking lot. | |||
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2015+ F150s had a few incidents of rear window explosions as well. Been a while since I've been on the F150Forum, but I seem to recall a lot were replaced under warranty, with a few exceptions. IIRC, it was related to the rear window defroster on a few. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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I'm Fine |
I wish I'd known this as a kid - we could have blamed the broken sliding glass door on some manufacturing defect or weather phenomenom instead of me and my brother fighting.... ------------------ SBrooks | |||
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| I can't tell if I'm tired, or just lazy  |
Had it happen to me....twice! _____________________________ "The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living." "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" Benjamin Franklin | |||
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My 2004 Acura RSX-S did that. Closed the hatch a little crooked...BOOM! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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